See the irrationality of religion exhibited in sharp relief!

[Towlie]

Pastors sue California governor over coronavirus restrictions on church gatherings

Why are they doing this? Perhaps they realize that many people regard church as a social function that they go to mainly to get together, meet, and mingle with others in their community. With that aspect of church taken away from them they might succumb to the reality that church is really just a waste of time and money.

And anyway, doesn't Matthew 6:5 appear to forbid gathering together to flaunt your piety before others?

In short, I'll bet these pastors aren't worried about the Bill of Rights so much as losing their source of income.

[Walleye]

1. Can't pass the plate online

[Faux pas]

2. Exactly

[RussBLib]

6. Sure you can

The digital plate. So many artists are performing online, and most include a Donate button of some kind. No reason a church broadcast could not do that.

[Walleye]

7. But you can't give people dirty looks and shame them, except in person, when they don't donate.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Use of peer pressure to reinforce the indoctrination...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. And especially peer pressure when passing the plate. . . . nt

[Walleye]

8. This

[Girard442]

4. Amazes atheist me that the Gospels are almost wall-to-wall anti-Trumpism...

...which seems to trouble the Evangelicals not at all. Go figure.